Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #5168: Virtual Box 3.0.8 (Mac) Aborts after about 4 hours of working with OpenSolaris 2009.06 -> fixed in SVN/3.0.10https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168
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I use OpenSolaris 2009.06 running on Mac OS X 10.5.8 as my regular work environment.
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With versions 3.0.6, I've been seeing regular Virtual Machine aborts about one or two times a day.
I hoped this would go away with 3.0.8, but after upgrading today, I experienced another abort.
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Here are the symptoms.
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<ul><li>Everything works great for a couple of hours (4 hours in the last case).
</li><li>All of a sudden, the VM freezes, I see the Mac OS X beachball, the VM screen vanishes and <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> shows the machine to be in "Aborted" stage.
</li><li>I don't see any errors in the log (my latest log file is attched).
</li><li>When restarting the machine, there's about a 30% chance that the restarting process freezes and I need to Force Quit Virtual Box.
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This seems to hurt the rest of OS X: I can't regularly "Quit" other apps, but must resort to "Force Quit" them. Only a restart fixes this issue and after a restart I can also restart my VM.
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<ul><li>In the other, more lucky cases, the machine just starts from scratch and I can work again for about 4-5 hours.
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TicketfrankFri, 09 Oct 2009 08:26:58 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:4
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Your VM seems to crash. Is there any crash report available?
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TicketconstantinFri, 09 Oct 2009 15:47:08 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:5
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I haven't seen any crash reports in the <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> folder in Libraries. Where else can I look for a crash report?
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Ticketandy.hall@…Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:03:39 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:6
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On the Mac, crash reports live in /Library/logs/CrashReporter and have a name that indicates date/time/process.
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 11:59:24 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168
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New VBox log file
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:03:22 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:7
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I've upgraded the system to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The crashes are now more often: About once per hour :(.
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I've attached a new VBox log file. It shows memory allocation problems. This time, VBox didn't crash hard, but suspended the machine and showed a white window with white letters. Unreadable. But it wrote about memory allocation issues in the log file, which is now attached.
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My machine has 4GB of physical RAM and my Opensolaris instance was configured with 2GB. I only had Safari, Adium, Tweetie and Colloquium (IRC client) running, so no possibility of having any real memory problems (I usually have also iTunes and other stuff running and never saw memory problems before).
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This is all starting to look like a memory leak to me, but I'm not a VBox programmer.
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:31 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168
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Example Crash report from the described VBox crash on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:06:27 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168
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Example Crash report from the described VBox crash on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:09:04 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:8
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Thanks for the pointer to the crash reports. I found lots of them there :). I've attached a crash report from a typical crash of the described nature under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and another under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leo). The crashed under Snow Leo are more often (about 1 per hour).
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The memory allocation problem described above only happened once and doesn't seem related to the other problems, but I'll attach the crash report from that as well.
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TicketconstantinMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:09:38 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168
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Example Crash report from the described VBox crash on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), this is the instance with the memory alloc problems.
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TicketconstantinWed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:58 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:9
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Just to provide another data point: Just tried running without VT-X but the VM still crashed after about an hour. So it doesn't seem to be related to VT-X code.
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Duplicate of <a class="closed ticket" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5084" title="defect: VBox on Mac OSX Snow Leopard regularly crashes -&gt; fixed in SVN/3.0.10 (closed: fixed)">#5084</a>.
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Ticketsandervl73Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:10:14 GMTsummary changedhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5168#comment:11
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changed from <em>Virtual Box 3.0.8 (Mac) Aborts after about 4 hours of working with OpenSolaris 2009.06</em> to <em>Virtual Box 3.0.8 (Mac) Aborts after about 4 hours of working with OpenSolaris 2009.06 -> fixed in SVN/3.0.10</em>
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